Classic images for Interdisciplinary Connections
This image activity is designed as an example to support your conversations with classroom teachers regarding the use of visual art as an impetus for writing.
Pablo Picasso - Three Musicians is a large painting measuring more than 2 meters wide and high. It is painted in the style of Synthetic Cubism and gives the appearance of cut paper.
The central figure is a Harlequin playing a guitar, with two musicians by his sides. There is also a dog that can be seen to the left of the musicians with his ears clearly visible.
Romare Bearden - Three Folk Musicians, 1967 collage of various papers with paint and graphite on canvas, 127.3 x 152.4 cm (50 1/8 x 60) Bearden was one of the artistic innovators, blazing his own trail in a time of turbulent cultural change. While his work offers an invaluable view of mid-twentieth-century African-American experience, it has also come to occupy a significant place in the wider history of American art and speaks to the universal concerns of artists everywhere. Literacy Connection
Compare and contrast the topic of these paintings
Describe the images, consider the artistic techniques used
English/Language Arts Grade 3 - 5.04 Compose two or more paragraphs with topic sentences
supporting details
appropriate, logical sequence
sufficient elaboration
Analyze and describe what you see based on both pictures of the 3 musicians.
THEN
English/Language Arts Grade 3 - 2.02 Interact with the text before, during, and after reading, listening, or viewing by:
setting a purpose - consider the artists' form/choices - Based on the artists' choices, what else would you like to know about the artists - Based on what you see in the pictures, what do you think was happening at the time this picture was created? Can you hear these instruments and imagine what it sounds like?
making predictions - Describe their music - what do you think it will sound like and why do you think that? How will it make you feel?
asking questions - Are these pieces realistic? abstract and why??
locating information for specific purposes - identify the clues in the picture that best communicate the idea
making connections - if you were going to join one of the groups, which one would you select and why? -- Are these musicians professionals or just friends getting together to jam - what evidence do you have to support your position? Pick one of the pictures if one of the groups is one you would join - what might change about the picture?
This image activity is designed as an example to support your conversations with classroom teachers regarding the use of visual art as an impetus for writing.
Pablo Picasso - Three Musicians is a large painting measuring more than 2 meters wide and high. It is painted in the style of Synthetic Cubism and gives the appearance of cut paper.
The central figure is a Harlequin playing a guitar, with two musicians by his sides. There is also a dog that can be seen to the left of the musicians with his ears clearly visible.
collage of various papers with paint and graphite on canvas, 127.3 x 152.4 cm (50 1/8 x 60)
Bearden was one of the artistic innovators, blazing his own trail in a time of turbulent cultural change. While his work offers an invaluable view of mid-twentieth-century African-American experience, it has also come to occupy a significant place in the wider history of American art and speaks to the universal concerns of artists everywhere.
Literacy Connection
English/Language Arts Grade 3 - 5.04 Compose two or more paragraphs with topic sentences
- supporting details
- appropriate, logical sequence
- sufficient elaboration
Analyze and describe what you see based on both pictures of the 3 musicians.THEN
English/Language Arts Grade 3 - 2.02 Interact with the text before, during, and after reading, listening, or viewing by:
Additional Lesson Ideas @ http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/Files/picasso.htm